I can see how this could happen if two empires send 'demand surrender' Messages in the same turn. This is obviously caused by a lack of 'consistentcy checks' in the game, just like the trade exploits that had to be fixed where you could trade the same stuff to multiple AIs and cheat them. I would expect that the first empire to get a surrender gets everything, and any further empires get nothing. It's probably a simple tweak for MM to do if someone pointed it out to him. Sounds like a fair number of goofs like this are building up. Maybe we can get 'one more' patch after all.
[ March 13, 2004, 16:30: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]